| 单词 | sempstress |
| 例句 | He made the best baskets in the world, and his wife was an excellent sempstress. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The busy sempstresses plied their needles with double speed; and various were the flounces and furbelows, pinkings and quiltings, they invented. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z This was the case with the sempstresses of London; and the famous 'Song of the Shirt' struck a note to which there was a responding chord in every bosom. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z If there was a king who could not help being a locksmith, I know of a countess who could not help being a sempstress. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z The materials for these dresses can be purchased in Manila, and excellent sempstresses and embroiderers can be hired at moderate wages, and the dresses made in the house. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z I assure you the market cries aloud for house-keepers, nurses, laundresses, sempstresses. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z When the little girl was twelve years old, she and her mother left Cond�, and, after a short stay at Valenciennes, settled in Paris, where the latter found employment as a sempstress. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The wife is a sempstress, has suffered a year or two with her eyes. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Suppose I were a sempstress or a poor governess on her way to an engagement, should I not have to do the same?—to travel unattended; to take my chance of rough or uncongenial companionship? Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z They are excellent sempstresses and good at embroidery. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z She was no sooner gone, but in comes Mrs. Susan, a young sempstress from Salisbury, with sorrowful lamentation, weeping and wringing her hands. Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z Miss Pinky Davis, our country sempstress, was sent for, and again Cousin Sue spent hours planning how best to cut up and trim the bolts of nainsook she had ordered from Richmond. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z "Some of your friends would be a bit surprised, eh, Cavanagh, if you told them that you saw a doctor patch a man's heart with thread and needle, as a sempstress might a rent gown!" First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The robust kitchen maid, the trim modiste, and the humble sempstress, all swelled the phalanx of warriors. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Ruth is a very good sempstress; and I find enough of that employment for her, and in following "mass'r Franky" in his walks of discovery about the town. Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z I’m sure it is as bad here, as the stories I’ve heard about poor sempstresses in London. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z His wife was a good sempstress, and he had brought up all his six children to be useful, giving them such opportunities of acquiring knowledge as he could. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z "And yet, if she is not the sempstress, she must be Anita!" Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z My sister Victoria shares my dwelling and lives on the proceeds of her sempstress's trade. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah and other cities, to the distance of sixty leagues, to prepare pavilions, palanquins, sofas, canopies, and litters for the train of the monarch. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z She—was the sempstress for whom he had been toiling—the young girl spoken of in his story—she, whom he had said, he was going to return and marry! Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z Well, and I, also, met by chance with such another, a young, hard-working sempstress. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 The young sempstress then proceeded to the porter's lodge, where she communicated Germain's intentions, without forgetting the promised gratuity. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 I took up again my sempstress's apprenticeship, and soon ceased to be a care to my mother. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The hour was late to enter upon a search for new lodgings without arousing suspicion, and this determined me to try the sempstress indicated by Lady Jane. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec The lower room was in profound darkness, and the little sempstress bade her companion stay at the door while she procured a light from the rush-candle, that always burnt in her mother's chamber above. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. "It was the same with Mademoiselle Rigolette, who, according to her little means as a sempstress," said Lorraine, "some days ago offered her kind services to Jeanne." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 Franzl, however, sent her a minute account of all that had happened, through the sempstress who was sewing in the house; and she repeated every word twice over, that she might not forget it. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. I was without resources and unable to earn my daily bread, my apprenticeship as a sempstress having been cut short by my kidnapping. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z You never can tell with girls how soon such things may be wanted, and then I should have no occasion to apply either to the weaver, or the sempstress. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. II. The sempstress Leegart was a delicate, pale, rather superior-looking person, somewhat advanced in life, but still preserving traces of extreme beauty: moreover, her manner was always gentle and polite. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. After many applications a little new linen was obtained; but the sempstress having marked it with crowns, the municipal officers insisted on the princesses picking the marks out, and they were forced to obey. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries The humble petition of Penelope Prim, widow; "Sheweth, "That your petitioner was bred a clear-starcher and sempstress, and for many years worked to the Exchange; and to several aldermen's wives, lawyers' clerks, and merchants' apprentices. The Tatler, Volume 3 I wished to earn my living as a sempstress, a trade in which my mother instructed me during my stay with her. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The sempstress, however, made her spell out the words until she quite understood them. The Grandee She was anxious that the soup for breakfast should be particularly good today, for the sempstress, Leegart, was to arrive early, as little Joseph was to get a new green jacket of Manchester cloth. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Better a thousand times to be a governess, or a sempstress, or any honest occupation by which she could earn her own bread. Sir Tom She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen, And when she came back The dog was spinning. Traditional Nursery Songs of England With Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists "A sempstress constantly on hand?" said Mrs. Candy. The House in Town They quarrelled three or four times like this, and the dwarfish sempstress's shamelessness and evil-mindedness always showed themselves. The Grandee The sempstress Leegart chanced to be passing by on her way home from the forest mill, wishing to see the spot where she once lost her way. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. He drew thence a pair of sempstress's scissors. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 But the busy rush of the machine, and the concentrated attitude of the sempstress, displayed neither confusion nor worry beyond the desire to complete that which she was at work on. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country "There are the waiter and coachman, you know; and the chambermaid; and Mrs. Laval's own maid, and the sempstress." The House in Town "Silence! silence!" returned the sempstress, trying to disengage herself gently from the little hands. The Grandee There are innumerable references to its shops, its sempstresses and haberdashers. The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V The sempstress carried back the child up the steep staircase, laid her tenderly on her bed, and hurried away to her own attic. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children In addition to the Courts, shops or stalls were ranged along the walls where dealers in toys, milliners, sempstresses, stationers and booksellers sold their wares. The History of London I find my sempstresses at a cheaper rate in the Faubourg Tremé.” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Many women and young girls, who were only sempstresses and under servants, have found advancement in the great cities, and in the capital. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. She may be a governess, or a sempstress, or even within certain limits may enter the literary market and write books. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) All the summer the poor sempstress had been too busy during the daylight, to afford time even to cross the Square to study the strange paper on the Fountain. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children In sewing, the point of the needle is entered and drawn through in a direction towards the body, and not from it or towards one side, as with our sempstresses. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage “Fifteen hundred dollars bid for the Quadroon!—good housekeeper—sempstress—fifteen hundred dollars!” The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mere Christian charity would undoubtedly impel a man to meet danger for the welfare of the soul of a poor sempstress as readily as for that of a duchess or the mistress of a monarch. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen, But when she came back The dog was spinning. The Nursery Rhyme Book In time the sick child went to live with the sempstress, and their love for each other grew and strengthened, and overflowed in a thousand little acts of kindness to all who came near them. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children This was erected partly on the pattern of the Royal Exchange, and was opened by King James I. This, Strype tells us, "was for milliners, sempstresses, and other trades that furnish dresses." The Strand District The Fascination of London She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen, But when she came back The Dog was a-spinning. The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations But women's clothes were made to order in the town by mantua makers, and in the country by travelling tailoresses and sempstresses, or by the deft-fingered wearers. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Till on one occasion, in a gamesome mood, I narrated to my family the secret history of a sempstress, who had just before quitted the room. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 My house was full for weeks, of tailors, making up rough coats, trousers, etc., and sempstresses cutting out and making shirts. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Poor parents offer their girls to Europeans for a loan of money, and they are admitted under the pseudonym of sempstress or housekeeper. The Philippine Islands She was her mistress’s factotum—her cook, housemaid, sempstress, and confidential adviser; in addition to which she was somewhat of a bore, being stubborn and opinionated, but a good and faithful servant on the whole. The Lifeboat We should never have allowed smart young pickpockets to compete with poor sempstresses, whose ranks are already overcrowded. Six Years in the Prisons of England “No,” replied the young sempstress, taking the pins out of her mouth furtively, seeing that Conny was looking at her. Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle They go back to some ten years ago, when the author, after the rustic adventures which she describes in the following pages, had definitely settled in Paris as a working sempstress. Marie Claire Similar cakes are also bestowed on the hangers-on of the establishment, such as laundresses, sempstresses, charwomen, etc. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide The cruelty of the times is shown in the case of an unfortunate sempstress who tried to earn a living by making shirts for three-halfpence each. Queen Victoria She was milking the white cow herself, while the pseudo sempstress, Nichols, waited with the goblet, and the bandy-legged shoemaker, Twiss, stood on guard, eyeing Brindle's horns suspiciously. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 The old lady's story was, however, not Strictly correct in its details; a secret of the Garman family was hid in the sempstress's history--a secret which Miss Cordsen concealed with the greatest jealousy. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel The existence of a working sempstress in Paris, as elsewhere, is very hard; it usually means eleven hours' close application a day, six full days a week, at half a crown a day. Marie Claire But when she talked the resemblance to the sempstress soon vanished. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Its cultivators constantly make up for lack of talent by the excitement of immoral scenes, and give to their audience of sempstresses and grooms a most degraded view of aristocratic life. A History of English Prose Fiction Most women of the kind we're talking about wear ready-made clothes—not because they're lazy, but because the tailor-made suits which life in a city demands can't be made by any amateur sempstress. A Hoosier Chronicle It was all very well for farm-laborers, sempstresses, and servants; but it did not seem good enough for her Will. The Devil's Garden But already Marguerite Audoux's defective eyesight was causing anxiety, and upsetting the regularity of her work, so that in the evenings she was often less fatigued than a sempstress generally is. Marie Claire She was a sempstress; she looked like a sempstress; and she was well content to look like a sempstress. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 "That was highly improper—most reprehensible," said Astrardente, putting up his eyeglass to look at a pretty little sempstress who hurried past on her way to her work. Saracinesca When playing the sempstress, Jarl's favorite perch was the triangular little platform in the bow; which being the driest and most elevated part of the boat, was best adapted to his purpose. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I If she was not still going out as a sempstress the reason was, not that she was not ready to go out, but that her old clients had ceased to send for her. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns The working sempstress was sincerely esteemed by some of the brightest masculine intellects in Paris. Marie Claire “No! nor I would not for twenty princes,” added the sempstress. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago There sits a dress-maker, a sempstress who has had some experience of the world. Pictures of Sweden Her reputed father was a scullion, her mother a sempstress. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe Nor would she abandon her own labours as a sempstress. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns His daughters shall go to service, or be sent 'prentice to the sempstress of the next town; and his sons are put to honest trades. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front Empress Athenè, what strange sempstress wrought Such work? Theocritus, translated into English Verse When he, the innocent youth, was wont to play At coscogilla; and the prattling girl, Amid her nursery companions, toiled In sempstress labours for her wooden dolls.— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 His mother was a sempstress, and he looked it. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns It is less so perhaps in its consequences to the nurse, or sempstress, who has to repair the terrible rents which merciless brambles make, but of that children, boys especially, think little or nothing. Emilie the Peacemaker They remind us of nothing so much as of those profound and interesting annotations which are penciled by sempstresses and apothecaries' boys on the dog-eared margins of novels borrowed from circulating libraries; "How beautiful!" Famous Reviews It was built partly on the plan of the Royal Exchange; the shops or stalls being principally occupied by miliners and sempstresses. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 Twenty times in each day is she called upstairs to where the sempstresses are at work, to have something tried on or fitted. The Garies and Their Friends And Denry still lived in insignificant Brougham Street, and his mother was still a sempstress! The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns How else was a ragged sempstress in a squalid garret made immortal, nay, made universal, made to stand for an entire sisterhood of wretchedness? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 This change in the life of the little sempstress could not fail to produce some corresponding change at home. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Neither a sempstress nor an inferior actress could she persuade, for all her zeal, to unite themselves with a hand in an oil mill, a widower with two children. A Book of Remarkable Criminals If I wanted fresh roses which bloomed yesterday, the Countess Fiammetta or any little sempstress in Urbania might have given them me. Hauntings Ten sempstresses might have worked on the dress for ten years. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns If I had my time again I would choose in preference any sempstress. A Chair on the Boulevard The governor answered that as both the sempstress and the robes had been searched, there was no objection, so the two of them retired—Inez, with her arms full of garments. Fair Margaret The mistress of Arden Court might have been easily mistaken for a sempstress going home from her work. The Lovels of Arden High above these luxurious salons—ah, but how much more near to the skies!—one sees the poor grey paper, blackened and smoky, of a garret of sempstress, or workman, and the hearths black, deserted. Charlotte's Inheritance Many a Marquise has been obliged to turn sempstress, in order to gain a livelihood; but my friend the Comtesse had much ready wit, though no talents of that description. Paris as It Was and as It Is He stopped before Loo Loo, and said, "Are you a good sempstress?" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Besides, my attention was much distracted by the fear that the sempstress would not send home my dozen of new shirts, and that a vile procrastinating boot-maker would never come with my boots. Tales and Novels — Volume 02 These easily-pleased, confectionery-eating students, who fancy they are sowing their wild oats in truly Continental style if they tickle a sempstress under the ribs! Hunger One was the mother of four daughters, all still unmarried, earning their own livings, one in a shop, another a sempstress, two in service in good houses, earning good wages. A Traveller in Little Things Jewellers' apprentices, ladies' hair-dressers, journeymen tailors and upholsterers dance, at twenty sous a head, with sempstresses and ladies' maids. Paris as It Was and as It Is Jacqueline had begun to patronize the great dressmakers: she had dismissed the family sempstress who came by the day, a woman she had known since she was a child. Jean-Christophe Journey's End To this encaged sempstress no one ever speaks unless it be to give a rare order for a mutton chop or pint of stout. The Three Clerks How is it that you are here, weaving lace like any mechanical sempstress? Grisly Grisell In my way thither, I caught a glimpse of some pretty sempstresses, warbling melodious hymns as they sat needling and thimbling at their windows above. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents At No. 97, in the same street, two women, Mesdames Vidal and Raboisson, sempstresses, are in their room; they kill them. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness My father was an obscure person barely above a slave; he had in fact been one south of Xois and Thmuis; my mother a common sempstress. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 So the unhappy sempstress once, they say, Her needle in a pottle, lost, of hay; In vain she look'd, and look'd, and made her moan, For ah, the needle was forever gone. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 O Maryanne, you pretty girl, Intent on silky labor, Of sempstresses the pink and pearl, Excuse a peeping neighbor! The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe I wondered whether I was a sempstress or a tutor, and whether either of these functionaries were introduced, and whether they shook hands or not. Sylvia's Marriage Why, finally, were my eyes not lifted up to her wistful eyes, as she sat—poor sempstress—in that upper room? The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca Of course the sempstress flattered his taste; for his wife, poor soul! she soon had tact enough to discover, had no voice in the business. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 The housemaid probably did not like cleaning grates; nor the butcher killing sheep; nor the sempstress stitching silks. The American Senator Horizon, at that time altogether a green youth, amorous and light-minded, dragged the sempstress after him on his wanderings, full of adventures and unexpected things. Yama: the pit Below the rest, and set out with a glowing delineation, was a description of a remarkably fine young sempstress, very bright and very intelligent, sold for no fault. Manuel Pereira For a plantation she isn't worth seven coppers, and sempstresses and housemaids of her kind are looked on suspiciously. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter Her dresses had all been made by the mantua-maker, and her fine sewing by the family sempstress. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life Yes, he was fighting with these people for daily bread; he and his could live only if his three farthings of profit were plucked out of that toil worn hand of charwoman or sempstress. Will Warburton The sempstress believed and became alarmed with that disinterested, womanly, almost holy alarm, in which, with every woman, there is so much of something maternal. Yama: the pit Whatever this stranger might be she felt that he was as far from being a man of the world as she was from being a Cockney sempstress or a veiled favourite in a harem. The Garden of Allah How many times, think you, took I it back to the sempstress? The Hunchback They remind us of nothing so much as of those profound and interesting annotations which are pencilled by sempstresses and apothecaries' boys on the dog-eared margins of novels borrowed from circulating libraries; " How beautiful!" Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 All the while, too, we had to work—to work from morning till night, for we had contrived to obtain some employment as occasional sempstresses. Poor Folk In some way, while going to Rostov-on-the-Don, he had contrived to make a very young sempstress fall in love with him. Yama: the pit Take the sempstress, of whom so much has been said. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Twenty times, on the oath of the sempstress. The Hunchback She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah and other cities to the distance of sixty leagues, to prepare pavilions, palanquins, sofas, canopies, and litters for the train of the monarch. The History of Caliph Vathek But she has a masculine spirit, and is another sort of woman from us housewives and sempstresses. Egmont The sempstress belonged to the second category, and Horizon was soon successful, without great effort, in persuading her to go out on the street to traffic in herself. Yama: the pit You think it unjust to limit the labour of the factory child to ten hours a day, because you cannot limit the labour of the sempstress. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 The jade must have been born a sempstress! The Hunchback It appeared that Yegor had a family, three boys and a daughter, a sempstress, whom he wanted to marry to a cashier in a saddler's shop. Anna Karenina A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress. Gobseck Good sempstresses are to be hired in every village; and in London, with its famishing thirty thousand, not at all, or hardly,—Is not No-government beautiful in human business? Latter-Day Pamphlets And yet you see no injustice in limiting the labour of the factory child, aye, and of the factory man, to six days in the week, though you cannot limit the labour of the sempstress. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Now what think you had the sempstress done to the gown? The Hunchback Halls were likewise fitted up for weavers of woollens;— for weavers of serges and shalloons;—for linen weavers;— for weavers of cotton goods, and for stocking weavers;— cloth shearers;—dryers;—sadlers;—wool-combers;—knitters;— sempstresses, etc. Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 To surmise that, I must be learned in the sempstress’s art. The Hunchback You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 |
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